Flowers?

5/02/2011

It has been a few weeks since my last post. Not much has happened here in the brew department. I did the second racking of the elderberry wine. Very uneventful. The flavor is very good. In fact it is as good as the first gallon that is still bubbling away. Nice little bitter bite to it. I think that bitter bite with the sweetness is what I like the most about the elderberry.

I did try an experiment that didn't get past the boiling. I have a recipe for honeysuckle wine. I have to admit that I picked a lot of flowers and even picked up a couple of ticks in the process. After I had about 6 cups of flowers pressed into the cup I added a half gallon of water to the flowers and went to the three hour boil of the flowers. I have to tell you, when you boil a flower it does not smell like the flower. In fact after 3 hours of boiling I had to throw the whole half gallon of tea out. I am not sure how people can make wine out of flowers after this. Think I will stay with berries.

Short but sweet this time. Still waiting on the elderberry wine and berries to ripen.

Keep it bubbling!
Chuck